Hello! I upgraded from Fedora 43 (Plasma Edition) to 44 (Plasma Edition) on it’s official release date (April 28, 2026). The upgrade itself went flawless and I have had no issues, except for 1 thing; my startup sound no longer works. However, once the system completes the login process, every other sound (notifications, media, and so on) works with no issues. My shutdown/log off sound even works. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can check, or has anyone else experienced this issue after upgrading?
I have tried / checked the following so far:
- Verified sound is not muted during startup
- Cleared the PipeWire and WirePlumber cache
- Tried different startup sounds (via notifications)
- Tried to apply a default theme (e.g., Ocean)
- Disabled startup/login sound, restarted laptop, re-added startup/login sound, restarted laptop
Specs:
Acer Nitro 17 (13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700H)
Audio (currently using Raptor Lake-P/U/H cAVS):
kevin@fedora:~$ lspci | grep -i audio
0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-P/U/H cAVS (rev 01)
0000:01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation AD107 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
Log details (not sure if the startup sound is trying to activate before or after the Pipewire service initiates):
kevin@fedora:~$ journalctl --user -b 0 | grep -E -i “sound|audio|pipewire|pulseaudio”
May 14 10:38:07 fedora systemd[2655]: Listening on pipewire-pulse.socket - PipeWire PulseAudio.
May 14 10:38:07 fedora systemd[2655]: Listening on pipewire.socket - PipeWire Multimedia System Sockets.
May 14 10:38:07 fedora systemd[2655]: Reached target sound.target - Sound Card.
May 14 10:38:08 fedora systemd[2655]: Started pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service.
May 14 10:38:08 fedora systemd[2655]: Started pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio.